Twine-holder.



H. E. BROWN. TWINE HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 27, 1908.

Patented Nov. 17,1908.

Z 3 wuonl'oz HOWARD E. BROWN, OF FERTILE, MISSOURI.

TWINE-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 17, 1908.

Application filed March 27, 1908. Serial No. 423,782.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HOWARD E. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fertile, in the county of Washington and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Twine-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a twine holder intended for use in stores for conveniently holding the twine in a manner to permit packages to be readily tied, and relates more particularly to a twine holder of that type provided with a take-up device so that the end of the twine, after a piece has been removed for tying a package, will not hang in the way.

The invention has for one of its objects to improve and simplify the construction and operation of devices of this character so as to be comparatively easy and inexpensive to manufacture, and thoroughly reliable and effective in use.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a twine holder consisting of a wire structure so designed that it can be conveniently attached to or suspended from a ceiling or other support, portions of the wire being arranged to form guides on which the take-up device is adapted to slide and also formed with arms for supporting a spool or ball of cord, there being eyes provided on the wire frame through which the cord is guided.

With these objects in view and others, as will appear as the description proceeds, the invention comprises the various novel features of construction and arrangement of parts which will be more fully described hereinafter and set forth with particularity in the claims appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates one of the embodiments of the invention, Figure 1 is a perspective View of the apparatus. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section. thereof.

Similar reference characters are employed to designate corresponding parts throughout the views.

Referring to the drawing, A designates the frame of the device which carries a spool or ball of cord B. The frame A, in accordance with the present construction, is made of a single piece of wire doubled centrally on itself at 1 to form two parallel members 2 that constitute the guide for the take-up device 0, there being an eye 3 provided at the bend 1 through which the cord A is guided. At the upper ends of the members 2, the wire is bent into front and rear thread-guiding eyes 5 and 6, and above the eyes the wire is twisted at 8 to a suitable height and from the upper end of the twisted portions, the two parts of the wire are bent outwardly into bifurcations 8 and at the extremities of the latter are formed eyes 9 by bending the two parts of the wire horizontally and inwardly toward each other where they are twisted at 10. The extremities of the wires beyond the front end of the horizontal twisted portion 10 of the frame are bent laterally in a horizontal plane and the members 11 thus formed are turned into eyes 12 which latter cooperate with the eyes 9 for receiving screws or other fastenings for attaching the frame A to a ceiling or other support, or if preferred, the device can be suspended by means of cord or equivalent means from any appropriate support. Depending from the eyes 12 are arms 13 that have their lower ends bent inwardly and coiled to form pintles 1A on which the spool B is supported to turn.

The take-up device consists of a piece of wire that is doubled centrally on itself to form a thread-receiving eye 15 and the ends of this wire are formed into parallel coils 16 that are spaced apart and disposed parallel so as to slide on the guide members 2. This take-up device is threaded on the members 2 before the eyes 5 and 6 are formed, so that these eyes cooperate with'the central bend 1 to retain the take-up device permanently on the frame.

The spool B is placed in the frame by spreading the arms 13 far enough apart to permit the pintles 1A to be inserted in the bore of the spool, and the end of the cord is then passed rearwardly to and through the eye 5, thence downwardly to the eye 15 of the take-up device C, and then upwardly to and through the rear eye 6 from which the cord is passed downwardly through the eye 1. The frame A is mounted at such a point above the counter or wrapping table that when the take-up device C is at its lowermost point and resting on the bend or cross piece 1, the free end of the cord will extend below the eye 1 and within convenient reach of the wrapping clerk. WVhen it is desired to wrap a package, the clerk pulls on the free end of the cord, thereby first raising the take-up device to the top of the members 2 and finally the invention appertains, and while I have described the principle of operation of the that such changes may be made when desired as are within the scope of the claims.

combination of a frame constructed of a single piece of wire, said frame comprising looping the wire, outwardly-extending loops eyes or loops formed on the extremities of unwinding the cord from the spool until the desired length of twine is obtained. WVhen the cord or twine is severed, the device C is with the first-mentioned loops, and forwardly of the guide members, depending arms on the front ends of the forwardly-exfree to drop by gravity to its normal positending members, and means on the lower tion so as to thereby retract the free enc o the cord to such a position that it will not i be in the way or become tangled with objects.

From the foregoing description, taken in 1 connection with the accompanying drawing, the advantages of the construction and of the method of operation will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art to which invention, together with the device which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative, and

Having thus described the invention, what I clalm 1s v 1. In a device of the class described, the

parallel guide members, a cord-guiding eye at the lower ends of the members formed by a loop of the wire, front and rear eyes formed at the upper ends of the members by rising above the last-mentioned eyes, members extending forwardly from the loops,

the members and disposed in the same plane E ends of the arms for supporting a spool in a position in front of the said upper'eyes, with a take-up device slidably mounted on the said guide members and having a cordguiding eye.

2. The combination of a wire frame consisting of a single piece of wire doubled centrally on itself and formed into two parallel guide members, a cord-receiving eye at the lower ends thereof, a pair of cord-receiving eyes at the upper ends of the members, bifurcations disposed above the lastmentioned eyes, a stem connecting the bifurcations with the said pair of eyes and formed by twisting the two parts of the wire together, a horizontally-extending member connected with the bifurcations and cooperating with the latter to form loops, depending arms on the horizontal members and cooperating with the latter to form' HOl/VARD E. BROWVN.

Vitnesses Pnnss G. HIGGINBOTI-IAM, H. C. CARTER. 

